# How to pause a script

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-a-script/91463>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-a-script/91463 "2007-04-09T15:14:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-a-script/91463/1 "2007-04-09T15:14:48Z")

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hey there all,

i need a way to pause a script. I can’t find a Time.sleep or Time.wait  
or anything like that in my book.

sk

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-a-script/91463/2 "2007-04-09T15:25:49Z")

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On 09.04.2007 15:13, shawn bright wrote:

> i need a way to pause a script. I can’t find a Time.sleep or Time.wait  
> or anything like that in my book.

[http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005961](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005961)

robert

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-a-script/91463/3 "2007-04-09T15:42:54Z")

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Kernel, not Time.  
i get it. thanks.  
sk